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The Books of Elsewhere is a series of fantasy novels for kids and young teens by Jacqueline West that centers on the McMartins' house on Linden Street, which has many magical paintings. There are five Books of Elsewhere: [1] The Shadows (2010) Spellbound (2011) The Second Spy (2012) The Strangers (2013) Still Life (2014)
Plot summary for books 1&5 [ edit ] I have been trying to make a "plot summary" section, but I checked The Shadows out from the library a long while ago and returned it.
Francisca Goldsmith, also in School Library Journal, lists it among the year's best adult books for high school students. In her brief write-up, she echoes Freund's findings. [6] Donna Scanlon in Kliatt highlights the volume as an exceptional book and recommends it for senior high school students and for advanced students in adults. She feels ...
The Book of Elsewhere is a 2024 action and speculative fiction novel written by Keanu Reeves and British author China Miéville that takes place in an alternate universe to the main BRZRKR universe. Reeves had initial ideas for a novel set in the BRZRKR universe after the release of the first volume of his BRZRKR comic book run (2021) was ...
Books of the North: The Black Company (May 1984) Shadows Linger (October 1984) The White Rose (April 1985) Spin-off novels; Port of Shadows (September 2018). An interquel set between The Black Company and Shadows Linger though it is intended to be read after Soldiers Live; The Silver Spike (September 1989). Takes place concurrently with Shadow ...
Reese's first novel, The Book of Shadows (William Morrow and Company, 2002), [2] appeared on the extended New York Times bestseller list. It tells the story of Herculine, a French hermaphrodite born on the Breton coast in 1806. Reese styled the book in accord with the conventions of both the nineteenth-century novel and Gothic fiction.
The story follows the adventures of a book dealer, Lucas Corso, who is hired to authenticate a rare manuscript by Alexandre Dumas, père. Corso's investigation leads him to seek out two copies of a (fictional) rare book known as De Umbrarum Regni Novem Portis ("Of the Nine Doors of the Kingdom of Shadows
A Skinful of Shadows is a 2017 children's or young adults' paranormal historical fiction novel by Frances Hardinge. Her seventh novel, it revolves around Makepeace Felmotte, a girl with the inherited ability to see and absorb ghosts. It is set during the First English Civil War, and in particular the Siege of Oxford. The book was received ...